[HECnet] HECnet map

[Ian McLaughlin]

Just looking at this map and imagining the original cost for all the hardware that is interconnected and the telco cost of all of the emulated point-to-point links we have - this would have been a multi-million dollar network.  Not bad!

Ian


> On Apr 30, 2020, at 6:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-05-01 03:38, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>   This is really nice!
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>>   What does the color code mean?  In particular, why are some sites shown in
>> yellow and some nodes in red?  (Like mine!)
> 
> I think your is the only one I've spotted that is red. Paul will have to explain the legend...
> 
>>   And what are all the gray pushpins?  Are those nodes with registered
>> locations but no links?
> 
> I didn't get it at first, but you can click on pins, and then you get more information. And that also works on the grey ones...
> 
>  Johnny
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf
>> Of Paul Koning
>> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 4:55 PM
>> To: hecnet at update.uu.se
>> Subject: [HECnet] HECnet map
>> Gentlepeople,
>> I've added a map maker to PyDECnet, which is now on-line on HECnet.  It
>> currently refreshes once every 24 hours, showing locations and paths between
>> the locations.  You can hover over the location markers to see nodes that
>> have been recently observed, or click on the markers to see all nodes
>> whether observed or not.  Clicking on the connecting arcs will tell you
>> which nodes have connections on that path.
>> The map is here: http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map
>> You can also see a tabular display of the data collected by the network
>> scanner, at http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map/data .  Right now that link
>> isn't shown, I'll add that.
>> Feedback would be welcome.  There is no map legend yet.  The button on the
>> upper right is the "layers" tool that lets you chose among a number of map
>> sources, and lets you turn the location and/or path information on or off.
>> The default map is OpenStreetMap, and the mapping interface machinery is the
>> Leaflet package, a very nice and easy to use tool.
>> 	paul
> 
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